A Book of Hebrew Letters

Mark Podwal

1992

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Page printed with the Hebrew letter daled, and the Hebrew word derashah, and the words "derashah" and "sermon."

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Drawing of a large Torah scroll floating in the clouds with small group of people on the ground looking up at it.

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Mark Podwal

b. 1945

Mark Podwal is a Brooklyn-born artist, illustrator, author, and physician whose themes reflect Jewish history and traditions. Podwal’s works have appeared on the op-ed pages of the New York Times. He has received two Sidney Taylor Awards from the Association of Jewish Libraries and an Aesop Prize from the American Folklore Society.

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Lamentation for Those Who Perished in the Abriyah Earthquake

The Kinah [Lament] in Honor of Those Who Died in the Earthquake Wail O [professional female] mourners for the suffering of our death. The earth trembled with the earthquakes. We lost young and old…

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Art installation of large wooden domed structure with curved doorway.

Cell No. 1

The “Cellules,” or Cells, were six tiny all-white living spaces that Absalon planned to install in Tokyo, Paris, Zurich, New York, Tel Aviv, and Frankfurt. He intended to live in them, so they were…

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Painting depicting a seated man in robes next to shirtless man playing harp.

David and Saul

Ernst Josephson painted David and Saul early in his career, when he was working with mostly historical and biblical subjects. Here a young, eroticized David plays a lyre for a darkly brooding King…

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A Book of Hebrew Letters

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